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2015/03/27

Organizational Reform and Personnel Changes

Toyo Advanced Technologies Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Minami-ku, Hiroshima City, President: Yoshiaki Hongo; "Toyo" hereinafter) officially announces the following organizational reforms and personnel changes effective April 1, 2015.

1. Organizational Changes

<Objectives>

To forcefully promote the reform of business processes centered on integrated BOMs in the Machine Tools Business unit from sales to development and design, purchasing, and manufacturing.

To strengthen customer service functions in the Machine Tools Business unit so that it reaches a level that completely exceeds all global competition and to further improve customer satisfaction.

To unify manufacturing and product inspection functions in the Machine Tools Business unit in order to accelerate quality improvements by building in quality at manufacturing processes.

To strengthen the quality assurance system of the Automotive Components Business unit and also promote quality improvement activities.

<Contents>

A Production Control Department will be newly established, and production and cost control functions of the Machine Tools Manufacturing Department will be transferred to this new department.

A Customer Service Department will be newly established, and the service and quality assurance functions among the service, quality assurance, and product inspection functions held by the Quality Assurance Department will be transferred to this new department.

The Quality Assurance Department will be abolished and the product inspection functions will be transferred to the Machine Tools Manufacturing Department.

An Automotive Components Quality Assurance Department will be newly established, and the quality assurance and inspection functions of the Automotive Components Technology Department will be transferred to this new department.

2. Personnel Changes

(1)Officers      *Present positions in parentheses

New Former

President

ITOCHU Automobile Corporation
President

Nobuhiko Narisawa

Representative Director and Executive Vice President Automotive Components Business Hard Coating Business

Representative Director and Executive Vice President Automotive Components Div. Hard Coating Div.

Tatsuji Ikeda

Director and Vice President Machine Tool Business Production Management Dept. Machine Tool Production Dept.

Director and Vice President Machine Tool Business Automotive Components Div. Management Hard Coating Div. Management

Shigemitsu Koike

Director and Executive Officer Machine Tool Business Management Machine Tool Sales Dept.

Director and Executive Officer Machine Tool Business Management Machine Tool Sales Dept. Purchasing Dept. Management

Masayoshi Tsubouchi

Executive Officer Hard Coating Sales Dept. Hard Coating Production Dept.

Executive Officer Hard Coating Div. Management

Toshitaka Kobayashi

Executive Officer Customer Service Dept.

Executive Officer Quality Assurance Dept. Machine Tool Production Dept. General Manager Machine Tool Production Dept.

Toshio Yamanaka

Executive Officer Automotive components Engineering Dept. Automotive Components Production Dept. General Manager Automotive components Engineering Dept.

Executive Officer Automotive Components Div. Management General Manager Automotive components Engineering Dept.

Toshinori Kuniki

Director

President

Yoshiaki Hongo

Director

ITOCHU Corporation *

Yoshinari Yokouchi

Executive Officer
Automotive Components Div.
Management
General Manager
Automotive components
Engineering Dept.

Mazda Motor Corporation

Toshiyuki Kikuchi

-

Director(Resign as of April 1)

Yoshinari Yokouchi

-

Director (Resign as of April 1)

Masato Osugi

(2)Department Manager Rank and Above

New Former

General Manager
Production Management Dept.

Manager
Machine Tool Production Dept.
Production Engineering & Administration Gr.

Kenji Ikemoto

General Manager
Customer Service Dept.

General Manager
Quality Assurance Dept.

Seizo Takamura

General Manager
Development & Engineering Dept.

Manager
Development & Engineering Dept.
Mechanical Design Gr.

Toyohiro Hoshiyama

General Manager
Machine Tool Production Dept.

General Manager
Development & Engineering Dept.

Toshimitsu Iwai